In that scene where Reagan is on the balcony, Linda Blair _actually_ did that! The director thought there was no way to "fake" it, and had her stand up there; like, 100ft-300ft off the ground.
OMG, are you serious?! Could you imagine what the consequences would have been, had she fallen to her death? First of all, thank God she didn't, but if she had, people would be convinced that she was cursed for starring as Regan. And that would be on top of the fact that many believe 'The Exorcist' is... how do I put it... spiritually compromised.
@@ro4eva Yeah, which is pretty sad because the reality of it was the dude who wanted to make a movie about a child being tortured by the devil turned out to be.... kind of a piece of shit(WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT?!)
Ever since I discovered this channel, I haven't been able to get enough of it. Keep up the good work, because you sir, are truly amazing at being snarky!
The script was great, the cast was excellent, the film was creepy, without copying the original, Brad Dourif is brilliant as ever and the possessed Father Karras scared the shit out of me, when I was a kid... hell, it even had a Samuel Jackson, playing piano in heaven! What more would you want out of life? Under-rated to no end... ... this turd however, was one of the first horror-films, that I turned off, halfway through, and started doing something else... or perhaps put on another movie. Can't quite remember. Which is a shame, because it had a nice cast: Richard Burton, James Earl Jones, Linda Blair's T&A... for the love of Pazuzu, it even had a score by Ennio Morricone! The literal case of a pearl-necklace being put around a sow's neck, before throwing the pearls down a toilet... what went through the heads of everybody involved, will forever remain a mystery. Or perhaps it was some kind of demonic possession....
I saw this as kid on TV -- I was around 13 (give or take a couple of years -- it was a long time ago: I am in my 50's). I remember it made very little sense to me, and in my recollection I had always attributed it to me being too young to understand its complex plot. And now I see your review, and how accurate my memory was: the movie made no sense because it had none to begin with! 😆
@@R-Lee- as I sad, I was a kid --- I was about eleven or twelve years old, so it was many, many decades ago. Cable was expensive and not very common, so it was over the air TV. I recall the movie being very long, so the editing must have been fairly light, and probably they just removed some small bits; but the story just didn't make much sense to me, the plot just seemed to me overly complicated. Mark's review is uncanny in how similar it is to what I remember.
Oh yeah! Well my...well, nevermind, my fam didn't quite have the same connections. Forgive the low hanging fruit of a joke,... Ancestors aided in the woredrobe department somehow. 🤷🏿♂️ The loom orchard is plentiful? (Isn't it great the lengths we'll go to be notable? No offense if whatever is true, but, this is how we approach life. Wild.)
Poor John Boorman, poor Ennio Morricone, poor Richard Burton.... such huge legends and they must have participated in such a botch. And also poor James Earl Jones, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow and Ned Beatty.
Yeah, Boorman is the reason this movie is the non-horror mess that it is. He hated horror films and had no desire to make one, yet he took the job. Then he promptly revamped the entire project, tossing most of the horror elements out and turning it into this trippy, incomprehensible picture. He deserves no pity whatsoever, and most of the blame (or credit, if you happen to love bad movies).
You gotta be out of your mind. They should've never, ever made any sequels to The Exorcist. Only small-minded teenagers would find those amusing. They are SHIT.
I find part 3 too slow, just so much exposition, every scene is two people talking for almost the whole film. I didn't find it worked as a murder mystery either.
People complain that Hollywood today only invests in sequels and remakes, and yes they do it for money, but you have to remember there was an era in Hollywood where they made sequels purely for money with absolutely no effort to make a movie actually worth watching. For a very long time, The Godfather Part II and Aliens were the only sequels EVER that you could argue were better than the original. Sequels have definitely improved in the past decade or so.
The Exorcist holds it's value even today. Not only the horror aspect, but the incredible acting. Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller and Max Von Sydow do an amazing job, especially the character of father Karras by Miller. He is one of my favorite characters of all time.
The empty spots on the balcony actually gave me nightmares as a child. I don't even remember seeing the movie, I probably didn't, but I must have stumbled on the trailer because that image crept into brain and I immediately recognised it when I saw it years later. Oddly enough, of the entire Exorcist franchise, it was the one thing that did scare me. A hell lot, even. Then again, I was raised Catholic schools, in Europe, which meant very old churches and demon-related talk was actually per usual for me as a small kid and perhaps against all odds did not even scare me. Now falling to my death from a gap in the balcony railing did scareme.
I love this guys nonchalant voice as he comically points out several inconsistencies (comical inconsistencies mind you!) about the movie.Such as the poor poor Cabbie who was probably crush or died of a heart attack while the car was being shaken around.Haha!!
And in today's rather charged political climate the Leftists/Communists I am sure would claim "White people do not give a crap about their black cab drivers!". That would be a hilarious headline these days.
Burton was in a few horrible films, but I would happily listen to that guy read the phonebook - he's got one of the best voices in acting. I don't mean that in some creepy way!
@@thedarkness4052 True. It wasn't even supposed to be called Exorcist III, nor was there supposed to be an exorcism in it. As you probably know, it's based on a book by William Peter Blatty called Legion, and he wanted the film called the same thing. For some reason, the producers thought the Exorcist IP still had value so they made him call it Exorcist III: Legion, before dropping Legion altogether. But once they'd changed the name, they watched his rough cut and were horrified that a film called Exorcist III had no exorcism in it, so they made Blatty do all the stuff with Nicol Williamson's character, which is okay in and of itself, but tonally divorced from the rest of the film. Honestly, with all the interference, the fact that film didn't disappear is a testament to just how good it is. And it also has the greatest jump scare in history.
@@shugaroony I think so. Other horrific films I can think of with half decent casts include Caligula (which sunk many careers, or at least submerged Malcolm McDowell's for a while), the Devil within Her, 1941 by Spielberg... I guess I should probably give an honourable mention to Jan Michael Vincent, because while he was never that good of an actor, I loved Airwolf as a boy and he appeared in a string of bad films.
The British tax code at that time left iconic actors buried under taxes because they were financially on the line between middle class and wealthy. If they wanted even a semi-comfortable middle class lifestyle, they would have to take whatever decent-paying crap came their way. That's how Alec Guinness was roped into Star Wars and Laurence Olivier ended up in a Moonie cult film. Guinness was actually grateful for doing Star Wars because the royalties meant he wouldn't have to do any more films he didn't like.
@@newguy90 A lot of these people just went to live overseas. Connery ended up in Spain, a lot of others went to live in the Irish Republic for similar reasons.
I've been watching horror movies since I was 9, and fifteen yars later, The Exorcist is one of the very few movies that still terrifies the shit out of me. The sequel though... it makes me laugh.
Forgive me for my cinematic heresy, but...I actually LIKE Exorcist II The Heretic. It is wacky, often makes no sense, and at times it IS laughable. Yet, I found it to be enjoyable.
Very understated and spot-on funny. By far, the best "bad movie" sarcasm offerings on RUclips, today. One of the best features (other than off-the-wall funny dialog) is the sad, "beaten down" countenance offered by the "host" of our journey into "hell". Well done, to say the least.
The main problem is the P13 trend to attract teens in theaters. And add to that the fact that every (non scary)creepy pasta circulating on medias are the main theme and voila! You have the least scary horror films in existence. I have nothing against movies that are aimed at a younger audience, but you need more to scare hardcore horror fans and very often the trailers for these things are very misleading for the kind of audience it's targeted at.
@@jjwp-ql5rv It has a lot of things hiding under the surface in that film. Someone on RUclips has done a video about the film hints at Regan having been sexually abused, without making it blatantly obvious. So the Exorcist is as much about the harm done to her by people. The film critic Mark Kermode rates it as one of his best films. While I don't entirely agree, I respect Kermode's opinion in other areas (unlike most critics) so he must see something in it.
I was a teen when this came out. I just remember Linda Blair was cute and how liberating it must be to walk around in see through nightgowns ll day in public.
So many times people think they need to add to what is already a masterpiece. I don't get that. You can't just force creativity. It comes on spontaneously, yet all too often we try to force it. Ya can't force a flower to grow, you can't force yourself to go to sleep, and you can't force creativity. This reminds me, why in the fuck are they making a fourth Toy Story?
Ironically the fact that Pazuzu exists (no really, look it up) makes this even funnier. They took a demon from actual mythology, made him terrifying, and then slowly diminished his supposed effectiveness by making the sequels crappier.
He definitely deserves more subs. He's one of the few that hasn't posted click-bait, nor does he have those obnoxious 'Raid: Shadow Legends' ads inserted into his vids. Edit: Nor does he ask every video for people to subscribe and vote. He's humble about it.
LMFAO at how you do these bad reviews. it's so blaze and sarcastic, it's comedy gold. that Darth Vader voice over was hilarious, and the planet earth with wailing reference was so funny and i loved how fixated you were on the dead cab driver. i just subscribed and can't wait to go through the bad review playlist. :D
I am really glad this review exists. There are times I watch a movie, not like it, but feel like the world will hate me because I find fault with it. Exorcist 2 was one of those. I didn't understand the movie. It wasn't scary at all. It was just confusing. It was like some first year art students were asked to make their own version of the Exorcist. When I hear Mark talk about these movies I feel like I'm not alone anymore.
I mean, it's a universally disliked film, and many fans of the original hate the sequel. Even the third film gets more love (and rightly so) than this rubbish. So there never was any need to think you were alone with this. I was actually angry when I watched this film the first time, because it felt so insulting to the original Exorcist.
I saw this in a double bill with the original Exorcist film. My girlfriend spent most of the first film covering her eyes in fear and most of this film covering her mouth because she was laughing so much.
I love how a cab crashes through a front gate, a fire starts and burns someone to death, and a townhouse collapses, and no one in this densely populated neighborhood seems to notice. If it happened in my neighborhood, there would be a bunch of people outside trying to figure out what is going on.
It's a mess BUT has an amazing score by Morricone and some of the best scene blocking I've ever seen. The problem was that Boorman hated the original and wanted to make a film unlike the original as much as he possibly could. Always enjoyable to see Burton in anything, even when drunk (which was most of the time). You should check out The Klansman (1974) for a performance from a Burton so drunk that he almost died during production (had to have a full blood transfusion in hospital), was drinking 2 bottles of vodka a day, couldn't stand for most of his role and even forgot, years later when introduced to co-star Lee Marvin at a party, that he'd starred with him in the bloody film!
Huge fan of Richard Burton, but The Klansman sucked. I honestly would rather watch Exorcist II than sit through that piece of shit again. Although that fight scene between him and Cameron Mitchell is hilarious.
In all fairness, if people are going to call Bruce sick over this, then maybe they should realize she was literally dressed up in a nightie in one scene and seducing a grown man. They were doing their darnedest to make her "hot" for this movie.
OMG i forgot the psychiatrist in this was the evil Nurse Ratchet from 'Cuckoo's Nest'! How the great John Boorman managed to make such a turkey is incredible to me. 'Point Blank' is a stone classic, and 'Excalibur' though it is undeniably odd, has a firm grip on its material and possesses real magic.
I saw it when I was 11 (exorcist) and I lost my shit. When she started floating and furniture started moving I was done! By the time I saw part 2 I was in my teens and I was jaded by horror movies. So yeah I showed no interest. Especially after all the interviews I read and videos I watched.
I`ve been in the highrise glass business for almost 40 years. Sure back in the 70`s we`d install railings on skyscrapers with portions missing. That way kids, pets, the old or drunk would plummet to sidewalk below. Then, to protect people on the sidewalk, we'd sell the building owner sturdy glass canopies over the storefronts at street level. Of course party-poopers made us stop leaving out portions of the railings on highrises, but we still, for fun, leave out the welds and bolts on one panel of every railing. If you lean too hard it'll snap off and you'll plummet to the sidewalk... sorry, sturdy glass canopy below. "Hey! This railing is unsafe!" "Then don't lean on it. Didn't you read your railing warranty?"
My dad saw the exorcist when it first came out and they almost kicked him out of the theater because he was laughing so hard. It is not even close to scary unless you have satanophobia or are easily scared in general.
A really horrible squeal that seemed as if the only reason it was made was to sell Linda Blair as a busty sexpot (and erase the frightened little victim girl image of the original). However, James Earl Jones' role as the revered Witch Doctor who vanquished the demon Pazuzu was unforgettable, iconic and as close to terrifying as this movie was ever going to get. Fact: The Exorcist 3 was the true sequel to the original, and its also one of the most terrifying horror movies you will ever see.
I actually really like the Father Marrin Africa exorcism flashback scenes in this. Its got this weird, orange dreamlike vibe that works. It’s about the only part of the sequel that should’ve stayed cannon.
I can predict the future..done it many times and I will say this..you will be the ultimate movie producer/director in 10 years..you see thru all the bullshit and will make the best movie of 2030...buckle up and we will be looking for mistakes yet there will be none.
BRING BACK PRACTICAL EFFECTS!!!!!!!!!!! Also, have you noticed that the 80s and 90s are notorious for having TERRIBLE horror movie sequels. Like I know we have bad sequels now, but think about how many horror movies have had a ton of sequels that are largely considered bad. Jaws, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Child's Play, Alien.
most of these franchises have sequels better than the original and did you quote Alien as having a bad sequel. I hope they reversed that lobotomy in the past 4 years.
@Carol Bogdanowitz What? They're remaking it? Aww man.. why can't they just leave well enough alone. They're running out of ideas so they have to recycle movies. 😭
John Boorman going from directing the excellent Deliverance to directing Exorcist II: proof how far a director can fall (although he did rebound in '81 with Excalibur and again in '85 with the underrated The Emerald Forest). Also, William Friedkin could only watch the first half hour of this. Can't believe he even made it THAT far.
The exorcist is most scariest and terror inducing movie still to this day. It is no horror movie at all. It's a well written and interpreted story of unstoppable fear. Fear that shows itself to your face and terror that seeps into your imagination.
Peter Gorman I watched that one in spite of my husband’s warnings about how awful it is... the song in the movie is awful... and I am pretty sure it contributed to my irrational fear of children...
9:02 It's always funny to see street scenes in movies with a famous actor/actress and they did not use a closed set. Instead of all the people going about their regular business in the movie like they should you have a bunch of people staring at this "character" thinking, "Is that Linda Blair?"
a cab crash into the neighbours yard, noone calls 911, clearly disoriented people walk out and one of them puts herself on fire, noone calls 911, neighbours house suddenly collapse, noone calls 911, hell, they dont even go out on the street to check whats going on... with a neighbourhood like that, who needs enemies?
This needed a heavy rewrite. The script was shit. It reeks of too many people with different ideas trying to cram them all in. Needed to be more simple. I would have written a story where another kid, this time a teenager, is being possessed and the church feels like it might be the same demon so send the priest to interview Regan in the psychiatric hospital about her memories to find out if it's the same or a different one. In the finale, which would be similar to the ending of this(because the movie at least gets interesting in the finale), the Demon which turns out to be the more powerful demon Baal attempts to possess Reagan and seduce Burton's character. They succeed defeating the demon together, but Reagan dies at the end of the battle. I would have used that famous German case(which also inspired Emily Rose) where the girl died during the exorcism as the inspiration for the second film.
I'm so old, I saw this in the theatre as a young person. Yup saw Exorcist in the theatre too. I was freaked out by the Exorcist, as was everyone in the theatre, and kind of like Ex. 2. BUT I LOVE the way Mark uses the James Earl Jones thing to go full Darth Vader, Way cool !!!
Exorcist II is my favorite of all the films in this franchise!! Well, I haven't seen the recent debaucheries, AND I couldn't sit through the tv show! But, I MUST add, Exorcist III is definitely amazing. I love Exorcist II because it is SO bizarre and odd. I certainly will NEVER defend this film, but I love it! :)
"You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor. Take her away!" 😂😂😂
Darth Vader would kick pazuzus ASS
What's even better is how the clip he used matched up very well! 😂
I laughed so hard when that happened
Her mouth movements were almost in sync with the words 😂.
All too easy
In that scene where Reagan is on the balcony, Linda Blair _actually_ did that! The director thought there was no way to "fake" it, and had her stand up there; like, 100ft-300ft off the ground.
Linda Blair is a little crazy anyway.
OMG, are you serious?! Could you imagine what the consequences would have been, had she fallen to her death? First of all, thank God she didn't, but if she had, people would be convinced that she was cursed for starring as Regan. And that would be on top of the fact that many believe 'The Exorcist' is... how do I put it... spiritually compromised.
I would've quit right then and there. Who the fuck does that for a shot?!
@@ro4eva Yeah, which is pretty sad because the reality of it was the dude who wanted to make a movie about a child being tortured by the devil turned out to be.... kind of a piece of shit(WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT?!)
I wondered why that “effect” (as I thought it was) looked so convincing for something from 1977. Now we know.
So Darth Vader, Nurse Ratchet and Cleopatra's husband walk into a bar...
And they all get casted in the worst movie of their careers
And the snake king from Conan the barbarian. Didn’t Vader know the snake king? The dark side is everywhere!
Ever since I discovered this channel, I haven't been able to get enough of it.
Keep up the good work, because you sir, are truly amazing at being snarky!
Thank you very much! It's taken me years to sharpen my snarky skills
I concur!Bad movies crack me up!Your commentary makes me laugh!don't stop,please!
***** Once you reach this level, there is no going back.You then notice everything. I'm also in it, I can't relax anymore and just watch the shit :)
this is an incredible channel.I'm suprised he doesn't have at least 1 mil. subs yet
+Soy Jizz wow, your profile picture have something.....
Exorcist 3, on the other hand, is fucking awesome (and pretends 2 never happened).
Derek Smallshorts completely agree. Brilliant film.
Derek Smallshorts its very underrated
I still like Exorcist II though, @@arizonaFIREent. At least the music score is pretty good.
A lost classic. Always gonna be one of my favorite movies. Especially after reading the book
The script was great, the cast was excellent, the film was creepy, without copying the original, Brad Dourif is brilliant as ever and the possessed Father Karras scared the shit out of me, when I was a kid... hell, it even had a Samuel Jackson, playing piano in heaven! What more would you want out of life? Under-rated to no end...
... this turd however, was one of the first horror-films, that I turned off, halfway through, and started doing something else... or perhaps put on another movie. Can't quite remember. Which is a shame, because it had a nice cast: Richard Burton, James Earl Jones, Linda Blair's T&A... for the love of Pazuzu, it even had a score by Ennio Morricone! The literal case of a pearl-necklace being put around a sow's neck, before throwing the pearls down a toilet... what went through the heads of everybody involved, will forever remain a mystery. Or perhaps it was some kind of demonic possession....
Only reason I liked this bullshit movie was because of Linda Blair. I had a major crush on her back then.
Super RAPE
I saw this as kid on TV -- I was around 13 (give or take a couple of years -- it was a long time ago: I am in my 50's). I remember it made very little sense to me, and in my recollection I had always attributed it to me being too young to understand its complex plot. And now I see your review, and how accurate my memory was: the movie made no sense because it had none to begin with! 😆
On TV wouldn't it have been completely edited, or do you mean HBO?
@@R-Lee- as I sad, I was a kid --- I was about eleven or twelve years old, so it was many, many decades ago. Cable was expensive and not very common, so it was over the air TV. I recall the movie being very long, so the editing must have been fairly light, and probably they just removed some small bits; but the story just didn't make much sense to me, the plot just seemed to me overly complicated. Mark's review is uncanny in how similar it is to what I remember.
Fun Fact: my great uncle bred the locusts that were used in this movie :D
So, awful as it is, i always find it's pretty cool
LeaPrufrock that's pretty cool actually
Far out. Really.
The concept of wrangling creatures like insects for a film blows my mind. That must be a nightmare of a job, even for the well trained.
my aunt grew that field the bugs are eating!!!!
Oh yeah! Well my...well, nevermind, my fam didn't quite have the same connections. Forgive the low hanging fruit of a joke,... Ancestors aided in the woredrobe department somehow. 🤷🏿♂️ The loom orchard is plentiful?
(Isn't it great the lengths we'll go to be notable? No offense if whatever is true, but, this is how we approach life. Wild.)
Poor John Boorman, poor Ennio Morricone, poor Richard Burton.... such huge legends and they must have participated in such a botch. And also poor James Earl Jones, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow and Ned Beatty.
+subraxas yeah she had just won an Oscar what the FUCK was she thinking?!!!
Don't pity Boorman, he literally butchered the script they originally had.
@@trustno173 Boorman also did Zardoz. Which is horrifically schlocky, campy and should appear on this channel. I actually like it though!
subraxas - James Earl Jones' performance, and Witch Doctor character, was the only redeeming part of this hot mess of ungodly proportions.
Yeah, Boorman is the reason this movie is the non-horror mess that it is. He hated horror films and had no desire to make one, yet he took the job. Then he promptly revamped the entire project, tossing most of the horror elements out and turning it into this trippy, incomprehensible picture. He deserves no pity whatsoever, and most of the blame (or credit, if you happen to love bad movies).
Exorcist III is really underrated. Its the only good Exorcism sequel.
Brad Dourif's monologues in III were pretty great, but otherwise that movie suffered from it's own problems.
You gotta be out of your mind. They should've never, ever made any sequels to The Exorcist. Only small-minded teenagers would find those amusing. They are SHIT.
@@MrKmanthie OnLy SmaLL MiNdEd TeEnAgErS!! rabble rabble
I love part 3 and the beginning version of the prequel
I find part 3 too slow, just so much exposition, every scene is two people talking for almost the whole film. I didn't find it worked as a murder mystery either.
People complain that Hollywood today only invests in sequels and remakes, and yes they do it for money, but you have to remember there was an era in Hollywood where they made sequels purely for money with absolutely no effort to make a movie actually worth watching. For a very long time, The Godfather Part II and Aliens were the only sequels EVER that you could argue were better than the original. Sequels have definitely improved in the past decade or so.
And The Empire Strikes Back
Geoff Wheeler exactly
kolaxanthe late to the party but Spiderman 2 (Maguire) and Terminator 2
The Evil Dead II was also pretty good
I actually prefer Alien over Aliens, but both are good.
The Exorcist holds it's value even today. Not only the horror aspect, but the incredible acting. Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller and Max Von Sydow do an amazing job, especially the character of father Karras by Miller. He is one of my favorite characters of all time.
Yeah, today's "horror" movies are just gore and don't hold a candle to this.
That younger girl who Regan helped was actually Dana Plato who later was on Different Strokes.
I know someone who got blown by Dana for crack. True story.
"Repossessed" was the true sequel.
Thanks Leslie Nielson
Hilarious, one of my Neilson favs
Nielson is one of the all time greats
may be an even worse movie than this one!!
@@FuckYouWhosNext Jesus, your drunk, go back to your cave already and sleep it off.
The empty spots on the balcony actually gave me nightmares as a child. I don't even remember seeing the movie, I probably didn't, but I must have stumbled on the trailer because that image crept into brain and I immediately recognised it when I saw it years later. Oddly enough, of the entire Exorcist franchise, it was the one thing that did scare me. A hell lot, even.
Then again, I was raised Catholic schools, in Europe, which meant very old churches and demon-related talk was actually per usual for me as a small kid and perhaps against all odds did not even scare me. Now falling to my death from a gap in the balcony railing did scareme.
I love this guys nonchalant voice as he comically points out several inconsistencies (comical inconsistencies mind you!) about the movie.Such as the poor poor Cabbie who was probably crush or died of a heart attack while the car was being shaken around.Haha!!
And in today's rather charged political climate the Leftists/Communists I am sure would claim "White people do not give a crap about their black cab drivers!". That would be a hilarious headline these days.
Thank God this wasn't Richard Burton's last film ("1984")! And, also, thank God for "Exorcist 3", which is quite a good movie.
Agreed. It's a shame this piece of shit sullied the exorcist title. The Exorcist 3 should've been 2, it probably wouldn't have been so unappreciated.
Burton was in a few horrible films, but I would happily listen to that guy read the phonebook - he's got one of the best voices in acting. I don't mean that in some creepy way!
@@thedarkness4052 True. It wasn't even supposed to be called Exorcist III, nor was there supposed to be an exorcism in it. As you probably know, it's based on a book by William Peter Blatty called Legion, and he wanted the film called the same thing. For some reason, the producers thought the Exorcist IP still had value so they made him call it Exorcist III: Legion, before dropping Legion altogether. But once they'd changed the name, they watched his rough cut and were horrified that a film called Exorcist III had no exorcism in it, so they made Blatty do all the stuff with Nicol Williamson's character, which is okay in and of itself, but tonally divorced from the rest of the film. Honestly, with all the interference, the fact that film didn't disappear is a testament to just how good it is. And it also has the greatest jump scare in history.
The only scary thing about Exorcist 2 is that I had to watch this review twice because you re-uploaded... so I have to watch the Ex2 clips twice...
Now imagine how scary it was to sit through not just this movie, but all kinds of movies like this on a regular basis....that...that is my life
***** I envy that actually
***** I have to mention that Exorcist 2 is the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen of horror movies.
small internet. I watch this guy's videos too.
+Armoured Skeptic Hello!
I can't believe they got poor James Earl Jones in this movie.
the Exorcist tame? no freaking way. that movie still scares me today.
I still say that shot of her going down the stairs backwards is the creepiest thing
"You are part of the rebel alliance.."
Fucking hilarious!
Why do so many bad films have good actors? Burton is one of the greats.
This has to be up there with one of the worst films with the best cast?
Paycheck. Also, sometimes a movie looks good in script form,but sucks on film
@@shugaroony I think so. Other horrific films I can think of with half decent casts include Caligula (which sunk many careers, or at least submerged Malcolm McDowell's for a while), the Devil within Her, 1941 by Spielberg... I guess I should probably give an honourable mention to Jan Michael Vincent, because while he was never that good of an actor, I loved Airwolf as a boy and he appeared in a string of bad films.
The British tax code at that time left iconic actors buried under taxes because they were financially on the line between middle class and wealthy. If they wanted even a semi-comfortable middle class lifestyle, they would have to take whatever decent-paying crap came their way. That's how Alec Guinness was roped into Star Wars and Laurence Olivier ended up in a Moonie cult film. Guinness was actually grateful for doing Star Wars because the royalties meant he wouldn't have to do any more films he didn't like.
@@newguy90 A lot of these people just went to live overseas. Connery ended up in Spain, a lot of others went to live in the Irish Republic for similar reasons.
I've been watching horror movies since I was 9, and fifteen yars later, The Exorcist is one of the very few movies that still terrifies the shit out of me.
The sequel though... it makes me laugh.
Forgive me for my cinematic heresy, but...I actually LIKE Exorcist II The Heretic. It is wacky, often makes no sense, and at times it IS laughable. Yet, I found it to be enjoyable.
Very understated and spot-on funny. By far, the best "bad movie" sarcasm offerings on RUclips, today. One of the best features (other than off-the-wall funny dialog) is the sad, "beaten down" countenance offered by the "host" of our journey into "hell". Well done, to say the least.
The Exorcist from 1973 is way more scary than most of the horror movies nowadays
The main problem is the P13 trend to attract teens in theaters. And add to that the fact that every (non scary)creepy pasta circulating on medias are the main theme and voila! You have the least scary horror films in existence.
I have nothing against movies that are aimed at a younger audience, but you need more to scare hardcore horror fans and very often the trailers for these things are very misleading for the kind of audience it's targeted at.
khaleesi k it is
I don't understand how it's scary. I watched it as a child too the first time. It's not very good.
@@jjwp-ql5rv It has a lot of things hiding under the surface in that film. Someone on RUclips has done a video about the film hints at Regan having been sexually abused, without making it blatantly obvious. So the Exorcist is as much about the harm done to her by people.
The film critic Mark Kermode rates it as one of his best films. While I don't entirely agree, I respect Kermode's opinion in other areas (unlike most critics) so he must see something in it.
@@jjwp-ql5rv you obviously didn't get it...
😂😂 "she's part of the rebel Alliance, take her away!!" That was funny.
I was a teen when this came out. I just remember Linda Blair was cute and how liberating it must be to walk around in see through nightgowns ll day in public.
She cured Dana Plato from different strokes.
So many times people think they need to add to what is already a masterpiece. I don't get that. You can't just force creativity. It comes on spontaneously, yet all too often we try to force it. Ya can't force a flower to grow, you can't force yourself to go to sleep, and you can't force creativity.
This reminds me, why in the fuck are they making a fourth Toy Story?
They are?
Toy Story 5 now-
Ironically the fact that Pazuzu exists (no really, look it up) makes this even funnier.
They took a demon from actual mythology, made him terrifying, and then slowly diminished his supposed effectiveness by making the sequels crappier.
Define "exists" lol mythology specifically DOESN'T exist
and so what makes that ironic?? i dont see anything ironic at all about that.
@@FuckYouWhosNext It's like rain on your wedding day.
@@veteranredbeard6222 you're so smart. if you get any smarter you might not be stupid anymore.
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Like this movie.
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Look, she drew a picture of me with FIRE!
Word, he was more excited than disturbed that a strange child drew a picture of him like that. smh
The Vatican: You are out of line, father. Turn in your gun and badge!
*ＭＯＲ✝ＩＳ*
But Linda didn't wear a bra for the whole film.... so there's that...
Lucky for us!
Sex
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I am really glad this review exists. There are times I watch a movie, not like it, but feel like the world will hate me because I find fault with it. Exorcist 2 was one of those. I didn't understand the movie. It wasn't scary at all. It was just confusing. It was like some first year art students were asked to make their own version of the Exorcist. When I hear Mark talk about these movies I feel like I'm not alone anymore.
dumb.
I mean, it's a universally disliked film, and many fans of the original hate the sequel. Even the third film gets more love (and rightly so) than this rubbish.
So there never was any need to think you were alone with this. I was actually angry when I watched this film the first time, because it felt so insulting to the original Exorcist.
I saw this in a double bill with the original Exorcist film. My girlfriend spent most of the first film covering her eyes in fear and most of this film covering her mouth because she was laughing so much.
I love how a cab crashes through a front gate, a fire starts and burns someone to death, and a townhouse collapses, and no one in this densely populated neighborhood seems to notice. If it happened in my neighborhood, there would be a bunch of people outside trying to figure out what is going on.
linda blair looks so good tho
....you needed a confirmation that you're not gay? and as a kid too? wow
@@Golemoid LOL dude was very conflicted as a child I guess...In my opinion if he needed confirmation then he is still gay or bisexual at the least
@@BrettonFerguson simp spotted.
It's a mess BUT has an amazing score by Morricone and some of the best scene blocking I've ever seen. The problem was that Boorman hated the original and wanted to make a film unlike the original as much as he possibly could. Always enjoyable to see Burton in anything, even when drunk (which was most of the time). You should check out The Klansman (1974) for a performance from a Burton so drunk that he almost died during production (had to have a full blood transfusion in hospital), was drinking 2 bottles of vodka a day, couldn't stand for most of his role and even forgot, years later when introduced to co-star Lee Marvin at a party, that he'd starred with him in the bloody film!
Huge fan of Richard Burton, but The Klansman sucked. I honestly would rather watch Exorcist II than sit through that piece of shit again. Although that fight scene between him and Cameron Mitchell is hilarious.
4:10 That was an actual place, and the crew had NO WAY to help Linda Blair if she fell.
Linda blair was SO hot though
Dude she was like 17 you pervert!
Literally not a single attractive person in this movie...
Troy Baker in most islamic countries the age of consent is 9.
Allan's Snackbar!!
In all fairness, if people are going to call Bruce sick over this, then maybe they should realize she was literally dressed up in a nightie in one scene and seducing a grown man. They were doing their darnedest to make her "hot" for this movie.
"Riding along with a locust, like on a scenic tour of Africa" don't know why that made me lol so much.
OMG i forgot the psychiatrist in this was the evil Nurse Ratchet from 'Cuckoo's Nest'!
How the great John Boorman managed to make such a turkey is incredible to me. 'Point Blank' is a stone classic, and 'Excalibur' though it is undeniably odd, has a firm grip on its material and possesses real magic.
I saw it when I was 11 (exorcist) and I lost my shit. When she started floating and furniture started moving I was done!
By the time I saw part 2 I was in my teens and I was jaded by horror movies. So yeah I showed no interest. Especially after all the interviews I read and videos I watched.
Jazhua Vanboven lol
I`ve been in the highrise glass business for almost 40 years. Sure back in the 70`s we`d install railings on skyscrapers with portions missing. That way kids, pets, the old or drunk would plummet to sidewalk below. Then, to protect people on the sidewalk, we'd sell the building owner sturdy glass canopies over the storefronts at street level.
Of course party-poopers made us stop leaving out portions of the railings on highrises, but we still, for fun, leave out the welds and bolts on one panel of every railing. If you lean too hard it'll snap off and you'll plummet to the sidewalk... sorry, sturdy glass canopy below.
"Hey! This railing is unsafe!"
"Then don't lean on it. Didn't you read your railing warranty?"
You should review the third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 90s
Why
@@alan7life Why not?
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When my father saw the exorcist in the theater, he passed out. I guess from fear.
My dad saw the exorcist when it first came out and they almost kicked him out of the theater because he was laughing so hard. It is not even close to scary unless you have satanophobia or are easily scared in general.
Darth vadar part was epic xD
A really horrible squeal that seemed as if the only reason it was made was to sell Linda Blair as a busty sexpot (and erase the frightened little victim girl image of the original). However, James Earl Jones' role as the revered Witch Doctor who vanquished the demon Pazuzu was unforgettable, iconic and as close to terrifying as this movie was ever going to get.
Fact: The Exorcist 3 was the true sequel to the original, and its also one of the most terrifying horror movies you will ever see.
I saw it when I was a kid (80's), I called it The Locust Movie
Trivia: Pazuzu was also the name of the gargoyle Dr. Farnsworth has in Futurama.
I actually really like the Father Marrin Africa exorcism flashback scenes in this. Its got this weird, orange dreamlike vibe that works. It’s about the only part of the sequel that should’ve stayed cannon.
I can predict the future..done it many times and I will say this..you will be the ultimate movie producer/director in 10 years..you see thru all the bullshit and will make the best movie of 2030...buckle up and we will be looking for mistakes yet there will be none.
How drunk was Richard Burton?
Thank god I've never seen this lol
***** Watch the first 30 minutes.
You missed NOTHING
It waa fucking retarded. I'd rather watch Exorcist III. Brad Dourif as a serial killer is bad ass.
Well, you kinda did watch it now. :P
"The Cab Driver...." L o L
BRING BACK PRACTICAL EFFECTS!!!!!!!!!!! Also, have you noticed that the 80s and 90s are notorious for having TERRIBLE horror movie sequels. Like I know we have bad sequels now, but think about how many horror movies have had a ton of sequels that are largely considered bad. Jaws, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Child's Play, Alien.
most of these franchises have sequels better than the original and did you quote Alien as having a bad sequel. I hope they reversed that lobotomy in the past 4 years.
So exorcist 2 is essentially the last 2 hours of a bad acid trip
The Exorcist is my all time favourite movie to this day it's still the scariest movie I've watched. Linda Blair is gorgeous!
@Carol Bogdanowitz What? They're remaking it? Aww man.. why can't they just leave well enough alone. They're running out of ideas so they have to recycle movies. 😭
@Carol Bogdanowitz Agreed!
That picture she drew of Father Lamont was awesome, I want it.
Mark, when you said the phrase, "evil Reagan," it reminded me of the 80s.
+Shade Draws Did you have to immediately go there? He made a bad joke (arguably), but you end up looking worse automatically.
Shut up
He kept mispronouncing it is though.
"Rag-in"
John Boorman going from directing the excellent Deliverance to directing Exorcist II: proof how far a director can fall (although he did rebound in '81 with Excalibur and again in '85 with the underrated The Emerald Forest).
Also, William Friedkin could only watch the first half hour of this. Can't believe he even made it THAT far.
This was a bad movie. But its one of those bad movies I really enjoyed. I love Exorcist 2. It was scary as hell to me when I was younger.
I kinda like it too lol
The exorcist is most scariest and terror inducing movie still to this day. It is no horror movie at all. It's a well written and interpreted story of unstoppable fear. Fear that shows itself to your face and terror that seeps into your imagination.
11:44 “you are part of the rebel alliance...”. I think I peed my pants!
Do Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
I love that movie, despite the robots . . .
Peter Gorman I watched that one in spite of my husband’s warnings about how awful it is... the song in the movie is awful... and I am pretty sure it contributed to my irrational fear of children...
It makes me wonder how this movie would have turned out had Friedkin and Blatty DID agree to do the sequel...
This was still better than Anchorman 2 and Grown Ups 2 combined.
The only thing that I'll ever remember from this is James Earl Jones dressed as a locust.
9:02 It's always funny to see street scenes in movies with a famous actor/actress and they did not use a closed set. Instead of all the people going about their regular business in the movie like they should you have a bunch of people staring at this "character" thinking, "Is that Linda Blair?"
Linda Blair survived the Exorcist but was forever traumatized by the making of this movie.
There is one positive about this movie: this review. Hilarious!
Didn’t even know they made a second
The original exorcist terrified me. But the sequel was a comedy. I laughed so hard during the movie...IMO it's a great comedy
amazing how its same director of classic Deliverance but I guess thats all he had in him...
Point Blank, Excalibur, Hope and Glory and Emerald Forest are all very good films also directed by John Boorman.
This looks like it takes all the scariness away from the first. 😄
a cab crash into the neighbours yard, noone calls 911, clearly disoriented people walk out and one of them puts herself on fire, noone calls 911, neighbours house suddenly collapse, noone calls 911, hell, they dont even go out on the street to check whats going on... with a neighbourhood like that, who needs enemies?
I might see "The Exorcist II" to find out if it is as bad as people say it is.
It's not that bad
This needed a heavy rewrite. The script was shit. It reeks of too many people with different ideas trying to cram them all in. Needed to be more simple. I would have written a story where another kid, this time a teenager, is being possessed and the church feels like it might be the same demon so send the priest to interview Regan in the psychiatric hospital about her memories to find out if it's the same or a different one. In the finale, which would be similar to the ending of this(because the movie at least gets interesting in the finale), the Demon which turns out to be the more powerful demon Baal attempts to possess Reagan and seduce Burton's character. They succeed defeating the demon together, but Reagan dies at the end of the battle. I would have used that famous German case(which also inspired Emily Rose) where the girl died during the exorcism as the inspiration for the second film.
Exorcists1 and 3 are excellent, but for some reason I love Exorcist 2:) Thanks for review.
You’re doing a great job sarcasticly. That’s not even a word, but you’re great. Thank you
Trust me when I say that The Exorcist 3 is pretty awesome.
I laughed for days at the guy shooting locusts with a rifle. That was amazing.
That Linda Blair though....
She's yummy!
I'm so old, I saw this in the theatre as a young person. Yup saw Exorcist in the theatre too. I was freaked out by the Exorcist, as was everyone in the theatre, and kind of like Ex. 2. BUT I LOVE the way Mark uses the James Earl Jones thing to go full Darth Vader, Way cool !!!
the vader part was gold
They were in a concrete basement with almost nothing flammable, they actually made it Worse by moving everything and fanning the flames. Wut?
Exorcist II is my favorite of all the films in this franchise!!
Well, I haven't seen the recent debaucheries, AND I couldn't sit through the tv show!
But, I MUST add, Exorcist III is definitely amazing.
I love Exorcist II because it is SO bizarre and odd. I certainly will NEVER defend this film, but I love it! :)
"She is party of the rebel alliance and a traitor, take her away!" for a brief moment, I actually thought that was in the movie bwahaha
You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor, take her away! Love how you threw that in there
I found this channel over the weekend and have now binge watched about 50 or 60 of these.....
Getting thrown around in the car, that was hilarious!
Mister Man has sarcasm and snark down to an art form. And he's super cute!!!!
You really enjoy The Exorcist? The Exorcist is one of the greatest films ever made!!! If you haven't watched it, Exorcist III is quite good.
They should make an Exorcist 3 about the cab driver
There is an Exorcist 3, and while I've not seen it, many people rate it.